The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has, once again, come under threat of extinction, in a matter to dismantle the party’s national leadership. The party is engulfed in court wars with expelled members. Apparently, the Federal High Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, nullified the PDP National Convention held in Ibadan, on November 15, 2025. Tanimu Turaki emerged as the elected national chairman of the PDP.

The court, while dissolving the PDP national leadership, installed the team loyal to Nyesom WIke, FCT minister, including one whose tenure has been declared expired by the Federal High Court, Abuja. The Federal High Court, presided by Justice Uche Agomoh, restrained Turaki and other members of the National Working Committee, NWC, elected at the convention from performing their responsibilities as PDP national officers.

Justice Uche Agomoh ruled that the Caretaker Committee, led by Abdulrahman and Samuel Anyanwu, is the only recognized NWC of the PDP, pending the conduct of a valid National Convention. Meanwhile, the Federal High Court, Abuja, presided by Justice Mohammed Umar, has in dismissing a suit by Samuel Anyanwu against the PDP, declared that Anyanwu’s tenure had ended in December 2025. In his judgment on the suit, FHC/ABJ/CS/254/2025, the Judge declared the suit an “abuse of court process,” and held that the issues Anyanwu raised “constituted the internal affairs of a political party—a domain in which the judiciary is traditionally barred from interfering.”

Justice Umar declared further that Anyanwu’s legal tenure, since he was elected in 2021 for a four-year term, has officially elapsed. The court found no legal justification for Anyanwu to remain in office after the expiration of his tenure and the subsequent emergence of a new National Working Committee (NWC). A scholar of Law,  Yakubu Pwajok, Law Lecturer, Jos, Plateau State, has stated that the  judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, or any related Federal High Court proceedings interpreted in connection with the PDP  affairs, purporting to affect the leadership, convention, or internal processes of the party, is a nullity and of no legal effect. According to Pwajok, “this position is firmly grounded in established principles of Nigerian jurisprudence: once an appeal has been duly filed and the Court of Appeal is seized of jurisdiction over the subject matter, lower courts are divested of the competence to further entertain, vary, or deliver judgments that interfere with or prejudice the appellate process. “Any such action by a court of coordinate or lower jurisdiction amounts to an improper interference and renders the purported decision a nullity. He questioned the Judicial Overreach of the judgment.  “The matter before the judge had no bearing on the purported Abdulrahman caretaker committee. It is, therefore, a clear violation of judicial ethics and an overreach of authority for a judge to grant reliefs not sought by the defendants, he declared.